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Nicolaus, in the hundred and fourteenth book of his
Histories, says that Andromachus of Carrhæ was a flatterer of
Licinius Crassus, who commanded the expedition against the
Parthians; and that Crassus communicated all his designs to
him, and was, in consequence, betrayed to the Parthians by
him, and so destroyed. But Andromachus was not allowed
by the deity to escape unpunished. For having obtained, as
the reward of his conduct, the sovereignty over his native
place Carrhæ, he behaved with such cruelty and violence that
he was burnt with his whole family by the Carrhans. And
Posidonius the Apamean, who was afterwards surnamed
Rhodius, in the fourth book of his Histories, says that
Hierax of Antioch, who used formerly to accompany the
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singers called Lysiodi on the flute, afterwards became a terrible flatterer of Ptolemy, seventh king of Egypt of that
name, who was also surnamed Euergetes; and that h had
the very greatest influence over him, as also he had with
Ptolemy Philometor, though he was afterwards put to death
by him. And Nicolaus the Peripatetic states that Sosipater
was a flatterer of Mithridates, a man who was by trade a
conjurer. And Theopompus, in the ninth book of his History
of Grecian Affairs, says that Athenæus the Eretrian was a
flatterer and servant of Sisyphus the tyrant of Pharsalus.

Athenaeus. The Deipnosophists. Or Banquet Of The Learned Of Athenaeus. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1854.

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